Toshiba TEC's barcode printers are specifically designed to produce high quality accurate barcode labels and tickets, as required to maximize efficiency in today's highly automated society. Whether you require portable printers, low output budget printers, medium output desktop-sized units, or high output industrial strength machines, Toshiba TEC's extensive product range will provide the ideal solution to your printing needs.
Our range of thermal printers work at optimal processing and printing speeds while ensuring the highest degree of reliability for business-critical applications. They are trusted worldwide to provide performance printing solutions combined with a low cost of ownership.
Thermal Printers
Thermal Printers are heavy-duty electronic machines that have the dedicated ability to print barcodes, text, or graphics on labels and tags. You might see them referred to as Thermal Printers, barcode label printers, thermal label printers, label printers, tag printers, or just barcode printers.
Barcode printers have the ability to print barcodes on labels with text and graphics at a very fast rate. That is mainly due to the printer’s ability to calculate the barcode, text, and graphic images internally. This allows the computer to send very little data to the printer in order to print very complex labels. Each label can be the same or entirely different during a print cycle. You can print one label at a time or thousands. They apply necessary data to each label by way of heat.
There are two basic methods of using this thermal method of printing; they are Thermal Transfer, and Direct Thermal. Thermal Transfer uses a ribbon that is already coated with a special wax/resin ink that is literally “ironed” to the surface of the material you are printing on. Direct Thermal uses a method where a special paper (called direct thermal paper) reacts to concentrated heat from the printer in a small area.
These features make barcode label printers far superior to other type of printers to print variable data on labels or tags.
The most popular resolution of barcode printers is 203 dots per inch. Most people just round to 200 dpi. But, you can also find 300, 400, and 600 dpi print heads. Be careful, a higher resolution does not necessarily mean better.
Barcode printers are usually separated into three categories. These categories are industrial, desktop, and portable barcode printers.
RoHS-compliant
RoHS-compliant parts include none of the following hazardous substances, such as Lead (Pb), Cadmium (Cd), Mercury (Hg), Hexavalent Chromium (Cr (VI)), Polybrominated Biphenyls (PBB), and Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDE).
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